Smart Women Connect

The buzz word is balance yet we're all trying to have it all. Can you have it all? What is balance? WE're juggling jobs, ageing parents, kids, relationships, life....are we even on our won agendas?

We're under so much pressure to conform. It's usually why we fall off track. Do you feel boring because you want to eat healthily or exercise or both? Tune in! We get it too.

Are you sitting a lot? Desk bound? Got neck and back pain? Sarah and Virginia share their tips on how you can relieve neck and back pain without taking pain killers.

Do you think about leaving the day? Do you want to become an entrepreneur? Sarah and I share our stories of leaving our day jobs as lawyers and becoming self employed.

How to love the ageing process. It's tough watching ourselves. Sarah and Virginia talk about getting older and how they fight off the urge to compare themselves to younger women.

How to lose your midlife belly fat; mum tum, midlife spread, muffin top....you name it....without dieting. As we get older we tend to hold on to belly fat. Sarah and I share out top tips on how to move that fat without starving yourself and over exercising.

Do you procrastinate? Are you forever putting things off till tomorrow, missing deadlines (or not setting any), pulling all nighters or are you doing 40 other things just to stop you from doing that one thing! In this episode we explore the reasons we procrastinate and offer our top tips to help you beat procrastination and get the important but difficult things done.

We just get on with it but we struggle too.

Sometimes it's hard to be positive. Sometimes it's hard to find the good things. What if you are trying too hard? Maybe the things to be grateful for are right under your nose. Share in Sarah's good news story.

Are you eating well, exercising, resting but still feeling blah? Is there a solution or do we get used to accepting that it's okay to feel a bit out of sorts in this environment.

Virginia was recording some of her fitness videos. In the background, her kids were doing online schooling. One of her children has an issue and comes running into the room where she is recording. the whole scenario is picked up on video. It shows the issues we're all having being at home. Sarah and Virginia talk structure and whether we can have it in this very different times. Enjoy.

Let's talk about menstrual cycles - periods - the monthly curse.

How to use this time to identify the things that make you happy (and the things that don't!).

Do you check in with your feelings before you take action? Today we share our advice on how to master your mindset for success.

How are you dealing with this time at home? Are you making time for yourself. Setting boundaries is super important. We share our tips.

We talk about adapting to life in quarantine. How are you doing?

Life as we know it has changed. Maybe this is the perfect time to plan that business you have always wanted.

Starting off with a bit about sugar detoxing and then into the important part, do you have a mentor? Do you need a mentor? Should you find a mentor?

In our search to find something uplifting to talk about, we come up with this! So what do you think?

Will the new movement of being kind, and sending messages saying that you're open to talking, work? We discuss.

Do you feel like you need to justify the choices you've made? "I'm a stay at home mum but I used to be a company director". "I teach fitness but I used to be a lawyer". Why do we do it? What's it all about? We'd love your views.

As parents, we're raising adults. We're there is nurture and guide so there's a fine line between guiding and controlling. So when should we step in when our children are having problems. Sarah and I discuss situations in our own lives where we've stepped in and the reasoning behind this. We'd love your feedback. What do you think?

What are you doing to get back into things after the break? Did you get some down time? Did you fall off track with your routines? Did you have a god time? Sarah and Virginia share their similar but quite different experiences. We'd love to hear yours!

You'll probably notice the changes in your cycle before you notice anything else. Maybe they become heavier; maybe you skip a month; maybe you notice more severe mood shifts or even stronger cramps but as sure as eggs are eggs, unless you are very much in the minority, you will notice changes. Here we share our experiences at different stages in that menopausal journey.

Are you still following the 20 something trainers and wondering why you can't get the same results? Your body changes as you age and as 2 middle aged women, we get it. It isn't difficult though to stay fit and healthy though. You just need to do it differently. Here we share our own experiences. Enjoy! We hope you learn to go easy on yourself.

How many times have you sat down, opened up Facebook or Instagram and scrolled. What did you not get done in that time that you needed to get done. Moving forward is hard as it usually involves stepping outside of our comfort zone but if we don't do it, we'll stagnate. Join us as we talk about our love of procrastinating.

Sometimes we just get a little bit stuck. What do you channel your creativity. We share some of our ideas. Virginia, odd woman that she is, dates Dave the Dyson. You'll have to listen to find out more......

How many times do you say "I'm so bad at that", "I'm no use", "I can't do that"? Join us as we talk about what failure actually is and how to overcome those nasty stories we tell ourselves.

Let's face it. We get our children on loan. They grow up way too quickly and before you know it, they're off and you're left wondering what happened. Did you always say "I can't wait until the kids leave home?" How did you feel when they left? Do you still have this to come? Join us as we share our views. Virginia will share how she feels about her son having left the roost.

How do you deal with the haters and the trolls in your life? Join us as we share some of our experiences and how we've dealt with them both in our online businesses and in the workplace.

Join us as we talk about leaving the day job and venturing out into the world of entrepreneurship. Do you ever know whether you are doing the right thing? Is there a right time? Is entrepreneurship all it's cut out to be? How does it feel to go from earning money to relying on your other half for cash.

It's called doing everything at once.... here's how we manage our busy lives. See how easy it is!

Do you really love yourself or are you trying to please others? Are you playing to the audience? Are you being true to yourself? We'll be talking self love and a little bit of Miley Cyrus.

Does the glass ceiling really exist? What part do we as women play in this? Join us as we talk about this very interesting topic and our lives in the legal profession.

What do you want out of life as you get older? Join Sarah and Virginia as we discuss healthy aging/ageing (depending on where you live).

Let's talk guilt. Is it nature or nurture? Guilty for working full-time and not spending enough time with the kids. Guilty for staying at home because you're not bringing in any money. Guilty about that glass of wine with dinner. Need we go on.

Welcome to our very first episode of Smart Women Connect - an open and honest discussion on health, wealth and relationships as we age. Just a short welcome from your hosts, Sarah Aspinall and Virginia Czarnocki - we're both mums, married, ex lawyers, entrepreneurs, fitness and coaching professionals and in our 40s. Virginia is in the final months of her 40s and rocking into the 50s. "How did that happen?" she says. "I don't feel old enough."We can't wait to share all the information us women need as we hit peri-menopause, menopause and then rock the rest. Just because you're 40 plus, it doesn't mean life is over. You can absolutely still crush it and continue to do so.